Orbital internal combustion engine

Details Orbital internal combustion engine Orbital internal combustion engine

1978-04-24

1980-06-24

Koczo, Michael

Internal-combustion engines

Rotary

With compression, combustion, and expansion in a single...

123243, 418 61R, F02B 5300

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042090016

ABSTRACT:
An orbital internal combustion engine comprises an engine housing having first and second end walls and intermediate, axially spaced first and second annular, inwardly projecting wall members. First and second axial drive shaft portions are installed through the housing first and second end walls respectively. A spool shaped engine rotor having radially outwardly projecting end flanges is installed in the housing with the first and second end flanges closely adjacent to axially outer surfaces of the first and second annular wall members. The rotor is eccentrically rotatably mounted to inner ends of the drive shaft portions. The two annular wall members and rotor ends divide the housing interior into a combustion air plenum at the housing first end, a central chamber and an exhaust gas plenum at the housing second end. A pair of intersecting rotor vanes, mounted diametrically through major portions of the rotor and in mutual orthogonal relationship, circumferentially divide the central chamber into four working chambers. The central chamber is generally square in transverse cross section and the rotor is mounted so that each of the vanes is orthogonal to one parallel pair of chamber walls, with outer end regions of the vanes in substantial tangential sliding contact with such walls for all rotor positions. Means are provided for constraining the rotor to orbital movement.

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patent: 3447513 (1969-06-01), Schneider
patent: 3964442 (1976-06-01), Hunter

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